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[expwnent]

In general with LUA, I'm pretty sure the worst that could happen is you lose your save or the game crashes. I guess if you WANTED to screw up other stuff you might do it with file operations, but that won't happen accidentally.

You won't cause memory leaks unless you're actually allocating memory, which you aren't. You're just changing existing memory.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

what was the command/plugin that hides all tiles that are not pathable?

like if I sealed up the caves then moved my mouse cursor to the surface and used it. everything beyound that seal would be hidden.

[Makbeth]

I think revflood is what you're looking for.  Don't think it'll do what you want it to though, since it considers constructions transparent.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Thanks that was it, and yes if ignores constructions :/ I remember in older versions it counted constructed walls. Never the less nothing DFliquid can't fix with obsidain walls. Good think obsidian is the same color as my decorating theme.

How hard would it be to make a revflood script/plugin that would count constructions?

[Rose]

Revflood was intentionally made to ignore constructions for a reason, which is becase deconstructing things doesn't actually reveal areas, while digging does, so if you wanted to go through that wall later, you wouldn't be able to because behind it would still be hidden.

[Makbeth]

You can download the source for DFhack, modify the code for a plugin, and then compile a copy of it.  I'm betting that since revflood used to not ignore constructions, you'll be commenting a chunk of code out instead of putting a new one in.

I did that to dfliquids once to refill candy tubes, but soon after that tubefill came out and did it better.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

is the a way to make a constructed wall into a natural wall? for digging? without turning it into obsidian with "liquids"

[mordrax]

A walkthrough of workflow would be handy.  As detailed or generalized as can be.  I'll be trying it out for the first time on the fortress I'm just getting going.  Haven't used workflow before, just been abusing the Manager, lol.  As I understand it, it "suspends" then "un-suspends" work orders set to repeat in a workshop?  Will the un-suspension be put back to the workshop it was taken from?  If so, what about the case where said workshop is removed, destroyed, inaccessible, covered in magma, etc.?  Handy for cases such as glass works where you have a couple next to the surface for gathering, then a magma glass works at the sea for actually making things.

The README give syntax, but no real detail about Theory of Operation, which is what I really need for all of these Hax.

it took me about a week to get used to it and now i cannot live without it just as i can't live without DT.

i grabbed this script off someone else on the forums when first learning workflow:

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# Remember to Execute 'job item-material' lines with the workshop targeted
# They cannot be blindly executed by cutting and pasting the whole script.
# job item lines are REM'ed but still need to be executed at the appropriate
# workshop

###################################################
#Clear existing workflow settings.
#Thank you Crashews
#Added autobutcher reset
###################################################
#workflow clear all
#autobutcher stop
#autobutcher forget all

###################################################
#Autobutcher with 10 female kids, 10 male kids, 4 female adults , and 2 male adults
###################################################
#autobutcher target 10 10 4 2 all
#autobutcher autowatch
#autobutcher start

workflow enable auto-melt
workflow enable drybuckets

###################################################
# Farm
###################################################
workflow count FOOD 5000
workflow count DRINK 5000

#Farmer's workshop
#Process plants
workflow amount THREAD//GRASS_TAIL_PIG:THREAD 99999
   #job item-material 1 GRASS_TAIL_PIG
#Process plants (Bag)
#workflow count LEAVES//BUSH_QUARRY 99999
   #job item-material 1 BUSH_QUARRY
#Process plants (Barrel)
#workflow count LIQUID_MISC//POD_SWEET:EXTRACT 99999
    #job item-material 1 POD_SWEET 

#Milled
#workflow amount GLOB//BUSH_QUARRY 99999
   #job item-material 1 BUSH_QUARRY
#workflow count POWDER_MISC//GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE:MILL 99999
   #job item-material 1 GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE
#workflow count POWDER_MISC//POD_SWEET:MILL 99999
    #job item-material 1 POD_SWEET
workflow amount POWDER_MISC//MUSHROOM_CUP_DIMPLE:MILL 99999
   #job item-material 1 MUSHROOM_CUP_DIMPLE
   
###################################################
#@ STEEL Production
###################################################
workflow count BAR//COAL 100
workflow count BAR//IRON 20
workflow count BAR//COPPER 20
workflow count BAR//PIG_IRON 10
workflow count BAR//STEEL 40

###################################################
# SOAP Production
###################################################
#workflow count BAR//ASH 50
#workflow count LIQUID_MISC//LYE 50
#workflow count BAR/SOAP 50

###################################################
# Container
###################################################
workflow amount BARREL/WOOD 10
workflow amount BIN/WOOD 10
workflow amount BOX/CLOTH,SILK,YARN 10
workflow amount BUCKET 10

###################################################
# Furniture
###################################################
workflow amount ARMORSTAND 20
workflow amount WEAPONRACK 20
workflow amount CABINET 20
workflow amount DOOR 20
workflow amount BED 20
workflow amount BOX 20
workflow amount CHAIR 20
workflow amount TABLE 20
workflow amount STATUE 20
workflow amount COFFIN 20
workflow amount TOOL:ITEM_TOOL_LARGE_POT 10

workflow amount BLOCKS/STONE 100
workflow amount CHAIN/CLOTH 10
workflow amount CRUTCH 5
workflow amount SPLINT 5

###################################################
# METAL
###################################################
#workflow amount BAR//IRON 20
#workflow amount BAR//STEEL 20
#workflow amount BAR//COPPER 20
#workflow amount BAR//SILVER 10
#workflow amount BAR//ALUMINUM 10
//#workflow amount TRAPPARTS 20



###################################################
# Military Ammo
###################################################
workflow amount AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS/METAL 2000 100
workflow amount AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS/WOOD 1000 100
workflow amount AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS/BONE 2000 100

###################################################
# Military Misc
###################################################
workflow amount QUIVER 10
workflow amount BACKPACK 10
workflow amount FLASK 10

###################################################
# Clothing
###################################################

#Head
workflow amount HELM:ITEM_HELM_CAP/CLOTH 20
workflow amount HELM:ITEM_HELM_HOOD/CLOTH 20

#Body
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_TUNIC/CLOTH 20
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_CLOAK/CLOTH 20

#Hands
workflow amount GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_MITTENS/CLOTH 20

#Legs
workflow amount PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_PANTS/CLOTH 20

#Feet
workflow amount SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_SOCKS/CLOTH 20
workflow amount SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_SHOES/CLOTH 20

###################################################
# Military 4 Sets (Assuming 3 standing squads with a full spare to sell\trade\etc)
###################################################
#Leather Armor Sets
workflow amount HELM:ITEM_HELM_HELM/LEATHER 10
workflow amount HELM:ITEM_HELM_HOOD/CLOTH 10
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_LEATHER/LEATHER 10
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_SHIRT/LEATHER 10
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_CLOAK/LEATHER 10
workflow amount GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_MITTENS/LEATHER 10
workflow amount PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_LEGGINGS/LEATHER 10
workflow amount SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_BOOTS/LEATHER 10

#Metal Armor Sets
#Head
workflow amount HELM:ITEM_HELM_HELM/METAL 10

workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_BREASTPLATE/METAL 10
workflow amount ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_MAIL_SHIRT/METAL 10

workflow amount GLOVES:ITEM_GLOVES_GAUNTLETS/METAL 10

workflow amount PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_GREAVES/METAL 10

workflow amount SHOES:ITEM_SHOES_BOOTS/METAL 10

workflow amount SHIELD:ITEM_SHIELD_SHIELD 10
#Weapons
    #Crossbows
    workflow count WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_CROSSBOW/WOOD 20
    #Obsidian Shortsword
    #workflow count WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD_SHORT/STONE 40
   workflow count WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_AXE_BATTLE/METAL 5
   workflow count WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_HAMMER_WAR/METAL 5

###################################################
#PROCESS BASIC PLANT GOODS 50 count
###################################################
#Quarry Bush (The Seed is a Rock Nut)
# These need to be confirmed still. Not certain about the Press and Milling lines
###################################################
  # PlantProcess (via Farmer's Workshop)
   #workflow count LEAVES//BUSH_QUARRY 50
  # Milling (via Millstone or Quern)
   #This should give us paste (via Bouyancy)
   #workflow count GLOB//BUSH_QUARRY 50 10
    #job item-material 1 BUSH_QUARRY
  #Pressing (Via Press, check to see if it is the seeds you are pressing rather then the plant)
   #This should give us cake and OIL counts
   #workflow count GLOB//BUSH_QUARRY:LIQUID_MISC 50
   #workflow count LIQUID_MISC//BUSH_QUARRY:OIL 50
  # Soap
   #This should give us Rock Nut Soap count
   #workflow count BAR//BUSH_QUARRY:OIL 50



###################################################
#Cave Wheat
###################################################
  # PlantProcess
  # Milling (via Bouyancy)
   #workflow count POWDER_MISC//GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE:MILL 100 10
   #job item-material 1 GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE
  # Brewing count
   #workflow count DRINK//GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE 50
   #job item-material 1 GRASS_WHEAT_CAVE
  # Cooking
  # Pressing

###################################################
#Pig Tail
###################################################
  # PlantProcess (via Bouyancy)
  #workflow amount THREAD//GRASS_TAIL_PIG:THREAD 30
  #job item-material 1 GRASS_TAIL_PIG
  # Milling
  # Brewing
  # Cooking
  # Pressing
    # ONLY WITH MASTERWORK MOD (via Bouyancy)
    #   workflow amount LIQUID_MISC//GRASS_TAIL_PIG:OIL 100 10
    #   job item-material 1 GRASS_TAIL_PIG
###################################################
#Sweet Pod
###################################################
  # PlantProcess (Added By Bouyancy)
    workflow count LIQUID_MISC//POD_SWEET:EXTRACT 20 10
    #job item-material 1 POD_SWEET
  # Milling
   workflow count POWDER_MISC//POD_SWEET:MILL 100 10
    #job item-material 1 POD_SWEET
  # Brewing
  # Cooking
  # Pressing

workflow works by finding a job that matches your command e.g my
workflow amount CHAIR 20
will match the first repeatable chair job that i create in either the wood, metal, stone or glass workshops and once matched, it will save that job number and monitor your stock levels of that item, if your workshop gets destroyed, the workflow order still exists but just doesn't have a job number to match until you create another workshop with a repeated chair order.

as to the "How-To" guide, this is what i do now, after 2 weeks of trial and error.
when i embark, i load the whole workflow script using the script command in dfhack. at the start none of the workflow orders can find jobs so u get all these yellow errors about cannot find job or something.
then i setup each of my industries and let workflow find the jobs
e.g, for furniture: build a carpenter, create a repeatable bed job. if you pause the game here and run workflow again, you'll see that the bed job has been found and there's a current count of beds: 0 and a target amount 20. in the mason, setup repeatable table, throne, armorstand, etc etc...
and that's it, ur mason and carpenter will continuously create these furniture until it reaches the target amount and when it does the job auto suspends.
so then i've dug out some living spaces and used quickfort to assign 20 bedrooms with a macro and off they go, all furniture is now used. you'll see in announcements that the jobs which were suspended are now 'resuming production: bed' etc etc...

i do this for food/drinks, clothing, metal bars + charcoal, containers (bins, buckets etc etc) so i rarely use the manager anymore... used to get RSI from manager spamming.

but with all my figuring out, i still haven't figured out how to do dying continuously... is that spelt right?

[telarin]

I posted this once before, but I know this thread gets busy and occasionally posts get overlooked. Anyway, is it possible with LUA to access traps (and possibly tracks, which I believe are implemented as traps), and fix them so that they are passable by wagons again?

[Rose]

Tracks are not traps. Tracks are floors.

[crazysheep]

but with all my figuring out, i still haven't figured out how to do dying continuously... is that spelt right?

Dying continuously is easy. Dyeing continuously, on the other hand, might be tricky.

[Makbeth]

is the a way to make a constructed wall into a natural wall? for digging? without turning it into obsidian with "liquids"

Use tiletypes.  Using "paint shape wall", you can turn the shape of the tile into a wall of whatever material the tile was to begin with.  Might want to look in the DFhack readme first, and also look at how to use hotkeys with the command.

I posted this once before, but I know this thread gets busy and occasionally posts get overlooked. Anyway, is it possible with LUA to access traps (and possibly tracks, which I believe are implemented as traps), and fix them so that they are passable by wagons again?

My guess is that something changed in the hardcode to make all buildings block wagons, or at least classes of buildings including traps.  Nothing in the raws or structures seems to offer a way to fix it.

I simply started changing my designs.  You can make an effective trapped entrance using the following facts:

1) Wagons will go wherever they have to, as far as they have to, to use a clear route to your fort.

2) Gobbos and some megabeasts will take the fastest path to your fort, whether it passes through traps or not.

My solution is to just outline a long clear path with cage traps.  I then install weapon traps outside those.  The wagons take the path, everything else tries to cut across the sides and gets shredded or captured.  I also use pastures with tame dangerous animals inside the enclosure with my trade depot, but in front of the actual fort entrance.

Oh, I'm not sure if it's a problem with my raws, but every couple years the migrants bring a tame giant cave spider.  If you get them as well, don't put them in the defensive pasture.  Not only are they completely ineffective against helmed foes, they spray webs everywhere, including over the traps.  I didn't lose any dwarves in the fighting, but I lost several when the mechanics came out to clean the traps and got webbed while standing over them.  Blind cave bears work much better than GCSs.

[Rose]

The giant spider isn't a raw issue. Somebody, at some point in your civ's history, went and tamed one, and since then, they have had them as pets.

[meowmix]

where do we get and how do we use the ruby plugin to use commands like removebadthoughts?  I am assuming that the ruby plugin doesn't come with the download since the commands don't work.

[Eric Blank]

maybe you have to invoke "ruby" first, then the commands associated with it? Or did you try that?